[MD] Why are things called patterns?

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[Mark]
> Anthropocentrism means that "the way we see things is the way they must be."

[Ian]
> [Anthropocentrism means that] "the way we see things is the way we must see them."

[Wikipedia]
> Anthropocentrism describes an analysis from the perspective that human beings are the central, only or most significant animal
> species, or the assessment of reality through an exclusively human perspective.

See also

[Wikipedia]
> In astrophysics and cosmology, the anthropic principle is the philosophical argument that observations of the physical Universe
> must be compatible with the conscious life that observes it. 
Craig